Exercise ten: Same speed, increasing weight
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Simon FischerA bow-control exercise from Simon Fischer: keep the bow speed identical while moving across sound points and steadily adding weight, so speed, pressure and contact point stay in balance.
What's in the course
17 lessons (1h 15m) · 1 free
01. Introduction to Combinations
0:18
02. Alternative approach to Exercise one
1:23
03. Exercise six: Speed exercise + Pressure exercise
0:55
04. Exercise seven: Speed exercise + Changing soundpoint
3:30
05. Exercise eight: Pressure exercise + Sounding soundpoint
1:44
06. Exercise nine: Same weight, increasing speed
1:21
07. Exercise ten: Same speed, increasing weight
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08. Conclusion
1:33
Lesson transcript
Lesson on Bow Control
Like the previous exercise, this takes great control and at first feels unnatural. However, if you balance the speed, pressure, and sound point correctly, it really isn't unnatural at all.
Instructions
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Begin on Sound Point Five
- Using long bows, carefully note the exact speed of the bow.
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Maintain Speed
- While keeping the speed absolutely the same, without speeding up or slowing down even a fraction, move the bow to sound point four and continue.
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Prevent Sound Breaking
- The only way to stop the sound from breaking is to increase the pressure so that the speed, pressure, and sound point remain balanced.
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Move to Sound Point Three
- Still making every effort not to change the speed of the bow, move to sound point three and increase the weight even further.
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Simon Fischer enjoys a distinguished and wide-ranging career as a performer, educator and recording artist.
He has performed worldwide as a recitalist, and committed three Brahms Sonatas to record, a recording that received high praise in Gramophone Magazine.
Simon is recognised as having a place amongst the world's elite teachers. He is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music, and has held positions at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Wells Cathedral School and the Purcell School, and for 15 years was a visiting professor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. Having studied in London with Yfrah Neaman, and in New York with Dorothy DeLay, Fischer's approach unites the best elements of the French, Russian and American violin traditions.
Fischer's published work greatly influences the teaching of the violin. Having written for The Strad magazine since 1991, his monthly articles have attracted a worldwide following. Published by Edition Peters, his technique books Basics and Practice (translated into Korean, Italian and German), Scales and The Violin Lesson, and the DVD The Secrets of Tone Production (now available to stream via MusicGurus), have become standards on many continents. His book and DVD Warming Up was described by The Strad magazine as "23 pages of pure technical gold".
In 2014 Simon Fischer was awarded the European String Teachers Association prize "In celebration of a lifetime contribution to String Teaching".
In his four-part Secrets of Tone Production course, Simon guides you through getting to know your instrument and then working through his fundamental tone exercises step by step, so you can produce a richer, more controlled and more beautiful sound on the violin.
